Nicola Piovani Icff 2019 Special Guest
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ICFF 2019 SPECIAL GUESTS | 53 NICOLA PIOVANI ICFF 2019 SPECIAL GUEST by Alberto Diamante Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani set Cultura and the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, and to perform in Toronto this June supported by Fondazione Musica per Roma. An evening of music and reflection on a La Musica è Pericolosa (Music is Dangerous) lifelong career in the spotlight; renowned is the title of the event, as well as Piovani’s Italian musician will share with Canadians autobiography released in 2014. The audi- some of his most memorable pieces at the ence will be delighted to find the maestro at TIFF Bell Lightbox his piano, accompanied by a small orchestra Toronto – Recipient of the 1998 Academy at Toronto’s famous TIFF Bell Lightbox, Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for playing some of his most celebrated his work on Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beauti- works, spanning his five-decade ful, Nicola Piovani will grace the stage of the long career. Piovani will narrate TIFF Bell Lightbox at 8PM on June 20th for a the path that led him to collabo- private concert; an event proudly organized rate with some of the most by the Italian Embassy, the Consulate influential film directors General of Italy in Toronto, the ICFF present- in history, including ed by IC Savings, the Istituto Italiano di Federico Fellini, Marco ICFF 2019 SPECIAL GUESTS | 55 academy award winner for Life is Beautiful Bellocchio, Mario Monicelli, Giuseppe Tornatore in equal measure. The company is and Nanni Moretti. called “Compagnia della Luna” and Pianist, conductor and composer of film and has staged multiple productions theatre scores, Nicola Piovani is a Rome native over the course of many years. who rose to international fame following his 1998 The world-renowned Italian musi- Oscar win for Best Original Score for La Vita e cian and composer will perform as Bella (Life is Beautiful). Aside from part of Fare Cinema, an his Academy Award, Piovani also initiative of the Italian won three David di Donatello Ministry of Foreign (Italy’s Oscars): for Ginger e Fred, Affairs and International Caro Diario and La Stanza del Cooperation. The concert will Figlio, and was nominated 11 mark the closing of the 2019 edition more times. Piovani also won of the Italian Contemporary Film 4 Nastro D’Argento as well as Festival presented by IC Savings, a Lifetime Achievement and the opening of the TD Toronto Award at the 2009 Golden Jazz Festival and the Istituto Globes. He has written Italiano di Cultura Spotlight on scores for over 180 films. Italy program. Tickets for the In 1991, Piovani teamed-up spectacular event are now on with writer Vincenzo Cerami sale to the public at www.icff.ca/ to create a new form of icff-musica-2019/. The cost is musical theater, one that $20.00 per person. highlights words and music PRESENTED BY: 20 19 The Italian Movie Industry.